NISTIR 8144 provides background information on mobile information systems and their attack surface is provided to assist readers in understanding threats contained within the Mobile Threat Catalogue. The NISTIR also outlines the structure of the Mobile Threat Catalogue. The Mobile Threat Catalogue is a separate document located at the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC).

Mobile security engineers and architects can leverage these documents to inform risk assessments, build threat models, enumerate the attack surface of their mobile infrastructure, and identify mitigations for their mobile deployments.